Stereotactic body radiotherapy enhances survival in patients with non-small cell lung cancer
1. Median progression-free survival was greater in the SBRT group than in the standard-of-care group. 2. Patients with NSCLC displayed ...
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Endocrine therapy and breast-conserving surgical management without follow-up radiotherapy is safe in low-risk, luminal A subtype breast cancer
1. 5-year recurrence incidence was 2.5% at follow-up. 2. Overall survival at 5 years without radiotherapy was 97.2%, with a ...
Dose-escalated simultaneous integrated boost radiotherapy may increase ipsilateral breast tumor relapse rates
1. 5-year ipsilateral breast tumor relapse rates for test group 1 were non-inferior to the control group. However, noninferiority was ...
#VisualAbstract: Ipsilateral radiotherapy has an increased risk for contralateral lymph node failure in ipsilateral tonsillar cancer
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Hyperfractionated radiotherapy reduces complication rates compared to standard fractionation for locally advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma
1. Fewer patients in the hyperfractionation group reported grade 3 or worse late radiation-induced complications compared to the standard fractionation ...
#StudyGraphics: Concomitant chemoradiotherapy improves survival in elderly adults with locally advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinoma
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Medial retropharyngeal nodal region sparing radiotherapy for nasopharyngeal carcinoma
1. In this noninferiority trial, medial retropharyngeal lymph node (MRLN)-sparing radiotherapy was found to be noninferior with respect to local ...
Radiotherapy alone noninferior to concurrent chemoradiotherapy survival without disease relapse in patients with low-risk nasopharyngeal carcinoma
1. Patients with low-risk nasopharyngeal carcinoma did not have significantly different disease-free survival rates whether they received radiotherapy alone or ...
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Stereotactic body radiotherapy as a state of the art treatment option in inoperable non-small cell lung cancer [Classics Series]
This study summary is an excerpt from the book 2 Minute Medicine's The Classics in Medicine: Summaries of the Landmark ...
